Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!news.bawue.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!news.panservice.it!feed.xsnews.nl!border02.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!abp001.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F10-10.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: str more precise in 3 as 2.7 Organization: Decebal Computing References: <87twvzch2u.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:09:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87lhhbcf1d.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0P3hRYddr0icQ2+hkI4QF1v+b7k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1430309690 news.kpn.nl 21099 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:42596 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89546 Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 13:55 CEST schreef Chris Angelico: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> I am trying to make my modules also work under Python 3. I found >> that str is more precise in Python 3. The expression: str(134 / >> 6.0) gives in 2.7.8: '22.3333333333' and in 3.4.1: >> '22.333333333333332' >> >> Was not very hard to solve: >> if python_version == 3: >> output06[5] = '22.333333333333332' >> output10[5] = '23.333333333333332' >> output10[8] = '24.77777777777778' > > Try using repr() instead of str() - it might be more useful to you. That looks very interesting. I am going to use it. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof